Ever wondered why we prefer our turkey fried rather than baked or roasted? Curious about the art of Spatchcocking that gives us the most succulent chicken? Well, sit back, relax, and let's talk about our unique Thanksgiving practices. Our holiday dinner tables may not look like your average ones, but our smoked turkey, ham, and Spatchcock chickens on the pellet grill are certain to whet your appetite!
As we traverse through the holiday season, road safety becomes a paramount concern. Join us as we navigate the labyrinth of road construction, discuss how to handle impatient drivers, and stress on the importance of taking regular breaks. Let's not forget our quirky thoughts on road designs, especially the confusing street names and layouts in Mississauga, Montana, and the infamous Michigan left turn. Buckle up, it's going to be an interesting ride!
Our show wouldn't be complete without a shout-out to our loyal listener, Chad. To clear the air, we're not bullies, and we're thrilled to welcome him as a guest on a future episode. Remember, we're here because of folks like you. Whether you give us five stars or just one, we appreciate your feedback. Send us your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions, and keep connecting with us. Until next time, stay safe, and have an incredible Thanksgiving!
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Eric Aune @mechanicalhub
Andy Mickelson @mick_plumb
Check out our website: mechanical-hub.com
Ever wondered why we prefer our turkey fried rather than baked or roasted? Curious about the art of Spatchcocking that gives us the most succulent chicken? Well, sit back, relax, and let's talk about our unique Thanksgiving practices. Our holiday dinner tables may not look like your average ones, but our smoked turkey, ham, and Spatchcock chickens on the pellet grill are certain to whet your appetite!
As we traverse through the holiday season, road safety becomes a paramount concern. Join us as we navigate the labyrinth of road construction, discuss how to handle impatient drivers, and stress on the importance of taking regular breaks. Let's not forget our quirky thoughts on road designs, especially the confusing street names and layouts in Mississauga, Montana, and the infamous Michigan left turn. Buckle up, it's going to be an interesting ride!
Our show wouldn't be complete without a shout-out to our loyal listener, Chad. To clear the air, we're not bullies, and we're thrilled to welcome him as a guest on a future episode. Remember, we're here because of folks like you. Whether you give us five stars or just one, we appreciate your feedback. Send us your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions, and keep connecting with us. Until next time, stay safe, and have an incredible Thanksgiving!
Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels!
Eric Aune @mechanicalhub
Andy Mickelson @mick_plumb
Check out our website: mechanical-hub.com
Well, you kids keep it down. I'm trying to tick tock why is the dad Spotify.
Speaker 2:I don't know, like I don't know why they came up, maybe the dad's a passenger, maybe. You got four seconds to come over that idea of what we're going to talk about today. I already hit record what are we talking about Countdown? Is on. Oh everybody, welcome to the Make Trades Great Again podcast. You know, I say that every time, andy, and I also say how you doing man?
Speaker 2:I'm doing good. How are you? I'm good. We're a couple hundred episodes plus into this podcast and you know how many times we've just BS'd when I hit record.
Speaker 1:It's been a handful of times. Yeah, I don't know. I'd say like if we were 250 episodes right now or whatever, we are 260, is it something? Yeah, I'd say it was like 259 of them were probably yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, if anybody thought otherwise, fooled you. No it's fun, we're having a blast, and today, everybody, you know, we try to record ahead of time, right? And so today is actually Thanksgiving, the morning of Thanksgiving, if that's, we still call it Thanksgiving, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I suppose there's no reason not to.
Speaker 2:Well, I know that like Columbus Day is like not Columbus Day, and I just I see what you're saying. Yeah, I mean, I'm okay with calling Thanksgiving, that's.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it was okay. Yeah, what do I know?
Speaker 2:I'm sure there's nothing else to call it Thursday Thursday, thursday, yeah, isn't it the third Thursday of every? I don't know, I don't even know what. Why am I going on about this? It doesn't matter, but the point is it's actually Thanksgiving and we got a whole lot of stuff to talk about today, like, for one, we don't do, we're not doing turkey at our house this year. We're not. We're not big turkey fans. What are you guys doing?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I like having turkey. Okay, um, that's just for whatever. Yeah, and he's a turkey guy. I got it. I'm not. I'm not like, uh, ooh, you know, hey, there's to be a turkey, I'm gonna eat that, um, but we do uh, locally here we have this, uh barbecue shop Notorious PIG.
Speaker 2:Notorious.
Speaker 1:PIG. I love it and they are, uh, they're killing it. Um, they've been around Missoula for I don't know. They're probably like they gotta be closing in on 10 years. Oh good, Um, great barbecue joint, you know all you know. A lot of it made daily type thing. Yeah, and they do this time of year they do a call ahead where you can basically call and put your order in for like a turkey breast or two or a whole bird, I think, if you want Um, and then they smoke turkeys, and then they um, or they're ready for pickup this last week, and then basically it's just like we ended up getting. We ended up getting like a four pound turkey breast that's smoked to perfection, and you bring it home, plop the thing in the oven, warm it up, then turkey dinner's ready and so then, we do that.
Speaker 1:We'll do that in a ham Cause Cheryl's. Cheryl's, not a, not a turkey gal.
Speaker 2:She's not a turkey gal. She doesn't strike me as a turkey gal either. No, I don't even know what that means, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Uh I, she never listens anyway, so like, but when she does, she likes to make fun of me, so I love that. Yeah, uh, no, I said we aren't a turkey Like we make. Turkeys at our house are probably, I'd say, going on maybe 50% of the time, probably less than that.
Speaker 2:We'll fry a turkey instead of put one in the oven. Yep, I know myself and my two boys would probably prefer the fried version of the turkey versus the baked and roasted, but I mean, I don't know if, like for no other reason than we're not really big turkey fans put it that way. Yeah, this year we're doing, we're taking, we're taking a look back at recent developments over the holidays. Okay, I don't even know what that even meant. Uh no, a couple of years ago for Christmas we had like Heather's fam here, her sister, brother-in-law, the kids, that kind of thing and we did a couple um, for Christmas, we did informal, like after Christmas dinner, a couple of Spatchcock chickens on the the pellet grill. Okay, and everybody's like what? This is amazing.
Speaker 2:You know we're like this is crazy, and so that's what came up on the idea list this year for Thanksgiving, and so we just got three chickens, we brine them and then uh, because there's like 10 people or something like that, so we've got three, three normal, everyday old, whole chickens. And we're going to brine them, yeah, and then we Spatchcock them on the. Do you know what that is? No, it's the most violent way to cook a chicken other than no, no, it's, it's so weird. So you get a whole chicken and then you cut along the, um, the. I think it's a breast bone, no, along the spine of the chicken.
Speaker 2:Okay, you cut like one side of it just off with your knife all the way through, from from whole to whole. And then you, you open the chicken up by breaking the breastplate. You like have to take the, the meat of your hand and be like whack and break the breastplate so you can open this thing up and like butterfly it, but on its carcass.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you, you've brined it overnight and you the brine would be like anything that's going to penetrate the meat right so like you know salty bread yeah. So I mean there's soy sauce usually involved, right Like maybe some like rosemary time whatever you want to put into it. Yeah, you brine it overnight in like a nice clean food grade. I don't even know if that's a thing. Five gallon bucket, right Some water.
Speaker 1:Some out of the garage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like well, this had a glycol in it. I mean, we drink glycol in our sodas, so anyway. So we're on. We're on MTGA turkey. Talk here and welcome back, if you're just tuning in. I'm brining chickens now for my spatchcock recipe. I love saying the word spatchcock because it just makes me uncomfortable and makes people around me laugh. But, um, so you've brined your chickens overnight, or at least four or five hours, I think. But we do it overnight in the fridge and then break the breastplate, cut it open or you lay it flat on the internal part of the carcass, down, got it. And another trick would be like some recipes will have you coating the thing in butter and seasoning on the outside or getting under the skin with the butter, and then I think that's really the like. If you can pull that one off.
Speaker 2:it's a messy job but that's a good method. And then what I do is I actually don't go crazy on the seasonings on the outside necessarily. I just do cracked pepper in some like just seasonal, like lauris or you know, like a all blend seasoning kind of thing, but lightly dust it Because honestly, the smoke is what, like the flavor of the pellets I use a pellet grill the flavor like that thing brings on because you brined it like it's amazing.
Speaker 2:Honestly, we take the thing off big baking sheets and just start like pulling, just basically, just like you would pull pork just tearing the chicken off the carcass, toss it and you just serve with tongs. You know what I mean. Like I'm not separating light and dark because it's chicken. You know. Like it's not like turkey, where I think it actually matters light and dark. You know what I mean. Like it's just chicken just like, just take it and it's amazing and people love it so.
Speaker 1:Well, what time are we doing that?
Speaker 2:Well, you should actually. So I know Cheryl, we bring up Cheryl because she's a little bit kind of a picky eater kind of. But you know hey, she's an adult. She's entitled to like what she likes, that's what she wants, that's right. But you know and also she knows her friend Eric. She knew you were hard time about it, but the I know she likes chicken, so like you should try this. Because it is if you've never done it and it turns out the way I know it will like, because I think you can screw this up and it's still just.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's a chicken off your smoker, right, right yeah. And you have the same smoker I do, so I know this is gonna work well for you. It takes, like you know, like three hours or something like that, maybe, like I don't remember, but totally worth it and to a point where I mean, like I said, we did it after, like this, like the weekend after Christmas kind of. You know, family was in town, kind of thing and hey, let's get together.
Speaker 2:And we did it for that meal and everyone was like can we just do this from now on?
Speaker 1:Like everyone From here on out.
Speaker 2:You know, can this just be the way we have? You know, family meals now, so that's how I've read it onto the dinner list for Thanksgiving 2023.
Speaker 1:This is how we got chicken on turkey day. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:I think we should change it Chicken. You know, there are some facts out there. I should have did my investigative journalism. But Minnesota is one of the top producers of turkeys in the United States. Did you know that?
Speaker 1:I guess I just don't know the full number, though You've mentioned that and I don't. That's interesting yeah.
Speaker 2:You know cause you can drive around like do you have bird farms there? Like that you can think of nearby.
Speaker 1:Okay no.
Speaker 2:I mean not anything big well, you'd know if you had what like. Here's why I bring it up. You can smell them from like a mile away. Yeah, I bet in your vehicle driving 70 miles an hour the opposite direction, like you can be like. Oh, we must be by it. Turkey farm, or is that chickens? I'm not sure you know. As I look around, anybody listening doesn't know that I'm Looking in either direction, but people watching on on YouTube you can see that right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are no they are Turkey. Turkey bird firms here.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe you just import them from, probably from Minnesota, maybe from Minnesota, maybe from. I bet you, the ones in Montana come, because it would make only make sense that they came from, like you know, virginia or something just even farther away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'd be fancy turkeys. We only I don't know why Virginia is more fancy than Minnesota.
Speaker 2:But it might be.
Speaker 1:Might be, might be nicer, not nicer. Quality a bird, you know it could be warmer weather there, they're they're paired there, yeah fair weather birds, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So the birds you get from Minnesota, they all like they grew up on hot dish and like have afghans and like just sit around watching TV at night. Yes, it's cold outside, they. They don't like the sunlight. This weather I'll white. They stay inside because it's like, yeah, dark after year. Yep, I don't know how I got on that topic, but anyway.
Speaker 1:Kind of kind of went strange.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so just a little. Well, let's bring up we were talking yesterday. Yeah, you know, that's kind of a way this podcast goes, is you and I get to Pre-discuss things and we bring our personal conversations into and do our recording to share with our friends. Shout out to HVAC Jay, he's a, he's a good, he's a big listener of the show and he likes to bring them up in the show. So yeah. I expect that he's gonna post something on his Instagram stories that we mentioned him, him, sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need like a sticker or something and I'd be like you know he's look with us you need it.
Speaker 2:Oh, hold it on the screen. Yeah right, were you just holding up a hockey puck?
Speaker 1:No, it's a coaster.
Speaker 2:It looks like a hockey park. I'm like yeah, I don't think he plays hockey, but yeah, I think he does as a coaster.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, I skates. It took cuz he posted the other day he took his daughter high skating. Oh no, I won his early day off. No, I was thinking you, oh, no, I don't, I don't know I am avoid the ice for all purposes, except ice fishing or duck on do you ice?
Speaker 2:Yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, I like to.
Speaker 2:We just talked about ice fishing sometime I.
Speaker 1:Mean?
Speaker 2:no, I was no anyway, we were talking about the other day, yesterday, I don't even know when it was. Yeah, you guys got just the you know the normal seasonable weather. All of a sudden, boom, roads are icy and stuff overnight and you got trucks on the road and you know you tell the story you brought up the other day and I thought it was interesting conversation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was kind of an odd deal. I left the house early and it was, I don't know, like 37 degrees or something like that, and by the time I got to my first call it had dropped five or six degrees and what was raining was no longer rain, it was it was just ice and the roads roads kind of got ugly and just I don't know just one of them things where you just got to look, start looking at it, and especially as you come into these first couple of weekends, or first not weekends first couple of days of Crappy roads, you know, wherever you're at, just pay attention. I mean, you know, give yourself a little extra room. You know, be be hyper vigilant about the people that are around you too.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you get so caught up they're not paying attention, right, but you get so caught up in, like we're still in that summer mode.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Where it's go, go, go, and you don't, you're not thinking like well, if I go, go, go, I might not stop, stop, stop, you know what. I mean, you know like it sounds silly to bring it up sometimes, that like cuz. I know we're all adults listening and talking about this, but yeah you have the, you you nailed it. Just slow down a little bit. I Like now, like for like legitimate, real reasons, not just like hey, you know, don't work so hard. It's hey, slow down because yeah, we're not down earlier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're not paying as close attention right now, right, because we're so busy. Holidays are distracting you, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah. And then you know, like everybody that was driving around on the day before Thanksgiving, recognize that, holy cow, there's so much traffic, what is going on, and it's you know, everybody's leaving town or coming to town and it just yeah.
Speaker 2:so we have some of these major major road construction projects that are Somehow in the stage of like still present, not being worked on, because now, like that, well, they're still working on them a little bit now, longer than they normally would have, but they're gonna be done for the winter.
Speaker 2:but the like, the Rerouting a lanes and crap, like that is not changing, it's gonna stay rerouted and stuff like temporarily you know what I mean Like it's in the middle of the state construction phase, but they're gonna have to stop working for the winter because that's just, you know, winter, and then, um, and then they'll pick back up and you know. But the point is is like people are coming to your town when you have this kind of stuff going on. People are coming to your town they haven't been here since last Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever and you know Everybody that's driving through that construction 30 miles an hour over the posted limit. You know construction zone limit because that's the way it is here. A minute, and people in Minnesota are terrible drivers, I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 2:But, um, everybody's you driving in it every day, and then you're gonna have people that are not. They haven't been there, like I said, for a year. And now it's like you said 40 degrees in the morning when you left the house, but now it's 29 and it was raining, now it's just ice. Yep, you know you mix all that together and then you know Rob's thinking about he always got to stop and get that part Because he forgot it yesterday and if he doesn't have it he can't finish the job. Miles is like this lady Doesn't have heat, she's got.
Speaker 2:You know he's thinking about what he's gonna do when he gets to the job and you're worrying about both of them. Plus you got this new guy and like all this kind of stuff. Yeah that's, that's not abnormal, you know, like that's normal, right, but like you said, now there's more people on the road and people are, yeah, you know, kids in the back street, backstreet, kids in the backseat, you know, playing video games. Dad's trying to jam out to Spotify while mom's like I'm face-bucking, you know, like I don't even know.
Speaker 1:Will you kids keep it down? I'm trying to tick-tock Talk.
Speaker 2:Why is the dad Spotify. I don't like. I don't know why they came up, maybe the dad's a passenger. Maybe, maybe I feel like he's not, though I feel like he's the driver kind of got very stereotypical. It did now see like I'm trying to dig myself out of this hole. I got nothing to say about it so stupid of me.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, anybody listens this long and don't know, at least gathered that much about me. We're good. No, I think I think you nailed it. Yesterday I was trying to cross, like I. I have to get on and off this four lane north south.
Speaker 2:Very busy highway. I live about a mile away from it. It's just my thoroughfare to get like to every job, pretty sure, unless I'm taking, like back roads, a different direction. Yeah, and They've done this thing in Minnesota. Now, where you have to go past like they, they took the median turn lanes and crossovers and stuff out of the direct path of that Road. Does that make sense? So now you go past that county road a quarter mile and you do this u-turn thing. Oh, and then you you can't take a left turn. Sure, your left turn is now a u-turn. I think it's originally in like Michigan, I think they call it a Michigan left or something like that, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But then you go and then you're going the opposite direction with traffic and you turn right and so how is that any better than just taking it being in a left-hand turn lane? Because, well, there's a couple reasons.
Speaker 2:There is a couple reasons why I think it's safer. I'm not gonna call it better, because some people would say it's not better and that's just an opinion. Right, yeah, you, when you're on the road, you're not on the highway, but you're on the county road, the cross Intersection road, the cross road, and you're wanting to pull out onto the highway. You're not. What happens is is people will come down that kind of road and they won't stop Because they see a break in the highway traffic. Just enough, because they're already going like 30, they're like punch it now.
Speaker 2:I can cross over and then they have to slam on the brakes and then that center divided median, that's like one car width.
Speaker 1:Let's say I got you, so there. Yeah, it prevents the people from parking there and then trying to zip across the next two, right.
Speaker 2:And then also, what they've done is they've put like these long Turn lanes so you can decelerate into this u-turn thing and you get to sit there and watch all the traffic. But now they've added like this half third lane on the other side to where you get like think of like the, they added space for the fire truck to do the turn. You know what I mean. Like they added that. So like you can pull out and turn, pull in directly into a turn lane instead of onto the Truth traffic path pattern.
Speaker 1:You know saying yeah and so like.
Speaker 2:Somehow it's safer when people do it right and they'd like wait for people to.
Speaker 2:You know, pat, you know they don't just breaking the traffic right and I'm point being is they're new, relatively new, at least on the highway that I'm speaking of In Minnesota. They've been around for a few years here, but only a few years to be honest with you, handful or less, and and People just don't quite. It's like when you get a new roundabout Yep and all of a sudden people are like how does this work? Like well, I mean, come on, it's not that hard. It's kind of like that where people Don't necessarily kind of flow with it the first couple times even you know.
Speaker 2:You know smoothly, and so now we're about what's that.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say what well you saw, I'm here a few months ago. Those, the ones on those two round, new, two newer roundabouts on the way to my place and from town, and they're we're like 18 months. Yeah, in on those, yeah and it's still surprising how many people are like I'm gonna pull into the roundabout and stop. Oh my god, I'm gonna let somebody in. Oh no, it's like Well yeah, no. I know I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 2:Well, that's just bad driving in the right, it is driving yeah absolutely, and this, these things present that too, where the People are in. I'm gonna say this about. I already said I think Minnesotans are poor drivers.
Speaker 2:I think the thing is is people are so impatient that they see the tiniest break in traffic and they're gonna take it Like they're not gonna immediately get hit so they don't care about. Like you, that's on you, that's your problem. You slow down, I'm gonna do what's good for me and that's kind of that's my attitude toward it. Maybe I have a bad attitude, but I think we drive all the time so like I see it over and over. But that's where this is a problem.
Speaker 2:And then, like I brought up earlier point I was trying to make is like people are just trying to get used to it and maybe, like you're saying, maybe 18 months later they're still not quite there, some of them. But then you have these new people that are like, oh, I haven't been to grandma's in two years, Like literally, well, first you should see your grandma more often and then, second, pay attention to the road. It's not that big a deal, you know, Right, I'm just trying to do it in my big one ton van that's probably overloaded, so like you know, it's fine.
Speaker 2:Whatever Make me stop and not hit you. It's cool. I don't know how it got under that little rant there, but it's probably way too long and boring.
Speaker 1:We were talking about yeah, dad on Spotify and mom on YouTube or Facebook or some other app.
Speaker 2:And I'm Spatchcock and Chickens while I'm trying to make that Michigan right. I don't know what is Michigan left hand?
Speaker 1:I don't know, michigan left.
Speaker 2:It's probably not even close to that. I'm just somebody's gonna call me out and tell me how wrong I am, but I just remember something like that here in right Probably just once, and it was only a thing to that person so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I could be. I've never seen such a thing, but maybe one day I'll have to come out and we'll have to see what this Michigan right hand, left hand in.
Speaker 2:Minnesota. Ooty loops about in Minnesota, you're gonna see it and be like this is stupid. And then the second time you go in you'd be like you know, I mean, it's not that bad, is it? I'm like, it's not bad at all.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you right now yeah, you know that's, and that's a thing like we have a a couple of roadways, both North and South and Missoula, that are not divided highways, so there are two lanes each direction type thing, busy, yeah, and like, say, not divided, then you have to cross that in multiple cases where you're, you know, making a left turn across two of them and the speed limit 75 or 60 or 70 or something like that, and you're it's like, it's like it'd be like having a stop sign at the side of the interstate, oof, yeah, and people get hit all the fricking time on it, and it's like it's the dumbest thing, it's like I don't know why there isn't, like I don't know, it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'm not a traffic expert, as I've already demonstrated through this whole entire traffic conversation, but my take on it is this if you really stop and think about it, where my brain goes is there's just so many more people and these roads aren't new. Like I can't, we don't have new roads here. Like I'm not living anywhere. Where we're like, oh, there's a new highway and they designed it for all the people in 2023 and beyond.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just added a half a lane to it and just squeaked it in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they're just, you know, they've had these highways in place for, you know, 60 years or something and with that, you know, and they just keep having to expand them and making bigger and figure out. And they're very smart way smarter than me about this kind of stuff, obviously but we're just trying to make it. Well, you question that, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I question road designers sometimes.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not saying that I agree with that.
Speaker 1:How's your thought process here?
Speaker 2:No, I agree. I'm just saying like I don't want a job. I guess is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think I'm qualified. Yeah, I switch. That's what I mean. I'm not qualified.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mine would be. My city road layout would be very vanilla. It would be straight lines. Yes, I know, and it would be very boring.
Speaker 2:I know that about you, though, like I would expect that from you, right, and that's okay, like I'd be like okay, you're gonna lose that whole row of housing and we're just gonna put in this.
Speaker 1:You know, plenty of room for expansion, and here it seems like that's. I mean, we build these neighborhoods.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then you wind this road through there and then you say, oh, you can park on the street, we're gonna do on street parking. And then the lanes are, like you know, eight foot six wide. I know they're wider than that, but they feel like it.
Speaker 2:Well, I think the minimum's like 12, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Still Pretty sure they're well under, well under nine.
Speaker 2:They're like eight 11, okay. Right, just hear me out. Why are you arguing against me? Uh, I grew up in a town where how did we're just talking about streets? Now we started talking about turkeys, turkeys, and now we're talking about I grew up in the town I grew up in, so we had streets and avenues, and streets were North, south and avenues were East, west, east West. That's it. That's it, yeah. If you lived on an avenue east and west, and then you lived on a street in North South.
Speaker 1:We're backwards from that, but yeah, same kind of thing, or?
Speaker 2:maybe it was backward yeah okay, just hear me out.
Speaker 1:It was one or the other. I hear you Put it that way.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, and everything was a president's name or a color Interesting, and then just numbers. The streets were numbers and the avenues were presidents or colors Weird.
Speaker 1:Not weird, I mean whatever. I don't know why I say weird. I mean I know what you mean.
Speaker 2:Like it isn't weird, but it also is like okay, I don't know, what to say to that, but that's what it was.
Speaker 1:We have like a mixed grab bag of like depends on what era the little subdivision was made, whatever the politicians were, or whatever. Yeah, we have a section of Missoula, so we had two traffic planners at one point I don't remember when this was, must've been in the 30s and they were doing.
Speaker 2:We hope you don't remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't remember. Yeah, I must have been sleeping that one, that decade, but yeah, it was almost like one of them had this section of town, yeah, and one of them had this other piece of town, sure. And so this guy says, well, we think that the streets should line up with on the 45. So they're not north, southeast, west, they're like northeast, southeast, whatever you know they're. They're we call it the slant streets, and it's literally this chunk, I don't know what it is 12 blocks, 12 by 12 or bigger. That's in the middle of town, that's diagonal to everything else and it screws with everything. So there was a thoroughfare. Stevens goes through Missoula.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, so right where we were working. If you know I don't know if you remember that, where you like, come out and all of a sudden you're like why did all the streets turn 45 degrees? Well, I mean, aren't all of them?
Speaker 2:No, I mean every street could just be 45.
Speaker 1:Like because Right, but you, if you made them uniform.
Speaker 2:No, because you just have to turn them.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, maybe that's what happened.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe I just think I'm funnier than a Might have been an.
Speaker 1:Irish Irish coffee type of morning and the road plan or road construction crew was like oh hey, johnny, you didn't park in the same spot and your maps crooked. No, your maps crooked.
Speaker 2:Well, we're just going to go with the gym.
Speaker 1:That's we're going to go with the gym.
Speaker 2:I've already recalibrated the plotter.
Speaker 1:That's right, oh man.
Speaker 2:That's a map. Talk turkey, talk, what else?
Speaker 1:do we talk. Traffic Traffic talk turkey.
Speaker 2:Talk Spatchcock.
Speaker 1:We should ask, I bet. I bet Denver's got something to say about the Michigan left.
Speaker 2:You know, that's just it, denver. Denver is a big fan of the show. I'm not saying there aren't other fans I brought up he, him, h J. There are a lot of big fans of the show and we appreciate every one of them. And just because I don't call out your name, Chad, doesn't mean I'm not thinking of you sometimes.
Speaker 1:Had somebody asked me the other day if we bullied Chad.
Speaker 2:If we bullied him, I was like wait, wait, wait, wait. Why? Because he hasn't been on for a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, if that's why he wasn't coming on, I was like I don't think we've been bullied in them.
Speaker 2:Well, we were going to have him on. We were going to record on the weekend a little while ago and it just didn't work out, I think.
Speaker 2:I flaked out on that and he was going to be on. I think we all had things going on, things. I think life was happening. All right, that's it. I'm hitting stop right now. Do it. Everybody thanks for listening. Tune in every week, twice a week, and email us at mactravesgreatagaincom. Is that right? That's the one. Okay, let us know your topic, ideas, feedback on what we talk about. Tell me, I don't know what I'm talking about. I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 2:It's fine and as you would see in your show notes on your podcast app, please give us a rating. I hope that rating is five stars. But, take what we get at this point. See you, man, see you.